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...years. But this killing sparked something different: a government commission of inquiry and surprising peace on the streets of Mogadishu. The city looked, to some eyes, almost civilized. And it may foreshadow a similar change in the country as a whole. "We want reconciliation with them," President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan says of the country's still violent warlords, "and to make peace in our country...
...Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values. Yet Ramadan says, "I'm a European who has grown up here. I don't deny my Muslim roots...
...latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have offered a good pretext. In a TIME interview at his fortified office in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizballah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah made it clear that the group's political aims in Lebanon have become secondary to the regional jihad to free Jerusalem from Israeli occupation. "There is no doubt that our most important role is in the region," he explained. "We have experience, and we are ready to help. All means must be used to help the Palestinians." U.S. officials contend that Hizballah is training radical Palestinian factions for terrorist operations...
Most notable among these is the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, an extremist organization once led by Zein Al-Abideen al-Mehdar, a.k.a. Abu Hassan, who was sentenced to death for kidnapping 16 Western tourists and executed...
Richman's researchers have re-created the priestly garments and tools that will be needed in the "Third Temple": a silver mizrak to collect blood from sacrificial animals, even a million-dollar menorah. And Sheik Hassan Barghouti is preparing--in a row of tiny classrooms built into the ancient north wall of the compound. As principal of al-Aqsa School, Barghouti drills 140 young Koranic scholars in the literal divinity of the stones from which their schoolroom is built. "This Jewish temple is a pure lie," says Barghouti. "It's the duty of every Muslim to die to defend...